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Caetano Veloso

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Eu vi um menino correndo

Eu vi o tempo brincando ao redor

Do caminho daquele menino

Eu pus os meus no riacho

E acho que nunca os tirei

O sol ainda brilha na estrada que eu nunca passei

Eu vi a mulher preparando outra pessoa

O tempo parou pra eu olhar para aquela barriga

A vida é amiga da arte

É a parte que o sol me ensinou

O sol que atravessa essa estrada que nunca passou

Por isso uma força me leva a cantar

Por isso essa força estranha

Por isso é que eu canto, não posso parar

Por isso essa voz tamanha “

Caetano Veloso. Força Estranha

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 25 de junho de 2022

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Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Bom dia!…

A vida não é o que você idealiza,
A vida é composta pelo que você oferece. São as respostas adequadas aos problemas que fazem com que ela seja conduzida da maneira correta, dia após dia. Achou que era ” molezinha” né malandro? Quem postula certos posicionamentos, nem sempre se sustenta no que diz. Vai lá, quer diferente? Arregaça as mangas e faz.

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Santarém, Pá 25 de junho de 2022

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Good Points, Pattie: The Supreme Court Got It Wrong — Thoughts From the Mountain Top — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

(Although White women could not be sold from the Auction Block, Pattie’s right -they had not many more rights than slaves. -Shira) Photo by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA on Pexels.com It’s kind of ironic that I just started listening to the audiobook of Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. I’m just at the beginning, but […]

Good Points, Pattie: The Supreme Court Got It Wrong — Thoughts From the Mountain Top — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Parashat Sh’lach-Lecha (שְׁלַח־לְךָ) & 40 Years?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

     This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Shelach Lechah  (פָּרָשַׁת שְׁלַח־לְךָ),  is the 37th (37/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, 5782, we read 54 separate parshiot…) reading in the annual cycle, and the fourth parashah in the book of B’midbar/Numbers. 

   Ok, so this week’s full reading has Moshe sending out for himself spies, bad reports, collective punishment, a stoning, and  Tzitzit (the blue fringes, sorry, now white fringes, on the Talit (prayer shawl)).   It’s a pretty iconic parashah on having faith even when things look bad, or so we’re told.  Problem is, it also looks like heavy-handed hierarchy.  I generally try to avoid the discussions on this parashah, because it has never been comfortable for me.   I’m too exhausted to think much, so I will add more thoughts next year.

     I look forward to hearing your opinions on this parashah, Thoughtful Readers.

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HIPAA doesn’t protect reproductive records from prosecutors – STAT

Health data beyond HIPAA

In states with abortion bans, patients have more than their official medical records to think about.

“If I was giving my sister or best friend some advice, the first thing I would say is to be very careful about what data in general you’re generating,” Shachar said. “We think about medical records, but our phones collect an amazing amount of data. It’s not a good idea to send texts about your intent to seek an abortion. It’s not a good idea to use an online payment app to buy these services. You might want to leave your phone at home as opposed to taking it to the clinic. You may not even want to search for abortion providers on your phone or computer.”

Spector-Bagdady added that a large economy of health information also operates beyond the control of HIPAA, allowing the makers of period-tracking apps and other devices to share customer information with third parties in some instances.

“Some of these (businesses) have sold or shared information that is fully identified in the past with other companies such as Facebook,” she said. She noted a lawsuit the state of California recently pursued against Glow, a company that makes menstrual cycle tracking software, for sharing reproductive health information outside the app. But the violation in that case stemmed from more rigorous data protection rules in California that are not in place in other states.

In addition, neither HIPAA, nor state consumer protection rules, prohibit the disclosure of huge amounts of health information transmitted outside medical settings — in retail stores, social media sites, online shopping accounts, text messages, and elsewhere.

“The more online you are, the greater your exposure,” said Eric Perakslis, a health privacy and cybersecurity expert at Duke University. “You have your CVS account, your online patient portal, your email where appointment reminders are sent, your SMS stream on your phone. You can see how the threat compounds. It’s very difficult for people to think through that because they compartmentalize.”

Source: HIPAA doesn’t protect reproductive records from prosecutors – STAT

(24) Harris says SCOTUS decision is a “health care crisis”

Harris said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade today could also affect other “rights that we thought were settled” — including same-sex marriage.

“This opinion also says when you read it, that abortion is not deeply rooted in our nation’s history. They offer that in the opinion as a foundation for the decision they rendered today. In holding that it is not deeply rooted in our history, today’s decision on that theory, then, calls into question other rights that we thought were settled, such as the right to use birth control, the right to same-sex marriage, the right to interracial marriage,” the vice president said, speaking in Illinois.

“The great aspiration of our nation has been to expand freedom. But the expansion of freedom clearly is not inevitable. It is not something that just happens — not unless we defend our most fundamental principles. Not unless we elect leaders who stand up for those principles,” Harris said.

“You have the power to elect leaders who will defend and protect your rights. And as the president said earlier today, with your vote, you can act, and you have the final word. So this is not over,” she said.

Source: (24) Harris says SCOTUS decision is a “health care crisis”

Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the Supreme Court overturns Roe – Los Angeles Times

Man sits in his office.

At 77, he is old enough to remember what abortion was like before the Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade in 1973. He treated women for infections from illegal abortions, including a 16-year-old who arrived with her vagina stuffed with rags whom he could not save.

Now, with the court striking down the right to abortion, Braid feared a return to those days.

“I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to do with these patients now,” he said before stepping into the hallway. “Never thought I’d see this day.”

 

Source: Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the Supreme Court overturns Roe – Los Angeles Times